Joey Lawrence: know how he feels after his divorce from third wife, Samantha Cope!

Joey Lawrence: know how he feels after his divorce from third wife, Samantha Cope!

American actor and singer, Joey Lawrence, 48 and his third wife, Samantha Cope divorced less than a month back. How is Joey coping with his third divorce?

How is Joey Lawrence coping with his third divorce?

American actor, Joey Lawrence, 48 has divorced his third wife, Samantha Cope on 13 August 2024. They separated on 7 June 2024. How his he coping with it?

Inner sources have revealed that Joey is upset with the way the things happened in his life. He is disappointed and emotionally very hurt. Despite that, his relationship with his other closed ones has improved. He finds that he is now able to co-parent his kids with second wife, Chandie Yawn Nelson in a better way.

Joey has taken everything in his stride and is facing the divorce bravely and with faith. He managed to now get along well with Chandie and the family dynamics has become better and stronger. The insider said:

Once they split, things got exponentially better between him and his ex wife and their girls,”

Joey Lawrence
Joey Lawrence upset with divorce from his third wife, Samantha Cope (Source: Just Jared)

Further, the source added:

Joey’s strong and strong in his faith so he’s trying to take it all in stride, but he is very disappointed and upset at how all of this has turned out.”

Joey is relieved because he can spent time with his kids from past relationships. The source said:

He’s taking the time to make up for all of the lost time that he had with his children.”

Reason of the couple’s divorce

Sources have disclosed that there were allegations that Joey has been infidel towards his wife, Samantha. The actress and Joey has met during the making of the film Lifetime movie, My Husband’s Secret Brother, that his brother Andrew Lawrence directed. Joey’s daughter from second marriage, Charleston was the actress in this film.

In May 2022, Joey and Samantha took their relationship one level higher and exchanged wedding vows. Their daughter, Dylan arrived in 2023.

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Joey with Samantha during happier times (Source: People)

It is alleged that Joey was having an extramarital affair with actress Melina Alves who was his co-star in the movie Shocked In For Christmas. The insider said:

Joey met Melina Alves on the set of their movie, where she was a producer,”

“He then love-bombed her just like he love-bombed Samantha. He continued to date Melina even after Samantha found out about it and confronted him.”

However, other sources state that joey shared a very professional relationship with Melina. They have worked in many films together. And Joey was only sympathetic towards her due to her divorce. The source said:

“He knew she was also going through a divorce,”

“He was very empathetic to her situation as well and called her collateral damage when it comes to all this.”

Past marriages of Joey

Joey’s first wife was Michelle Vella. They wed in 2002 but separated in 2005 with no offsprings.

Later, he wed Chandie Yawn-Nelson in June 2005. They knew each other since their teen days when they had met while on a holiday trip to Disneyland. They had two kids together: daughter Charleston, 18 and daughter Liberty, 14. The couple filed an application for divorce in July 2020.

This is Joey’s third divorce. Samantha has requested no spousal support and has asked the judge to not allow spousal support for Joey.

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Joey Lawrence with Chandie Yawn Nelson (Source: Entertainment Tonight)

Additionally, Samantha wants full custody of their daughter Dylan. Joey can visit her only at Samantha’s discretion. She writes in the divorce documents:

Once Dylan is 3 or older, Joe will have the option to take her for 2 nights in her home location if he is not working and can facilitate her visiting,”

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